i like how he repeatedly brings up the possible situation of using it on a date
― Z S, Friday, 21 June 2013 01:25 (thirteen years ago)
That is special.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 June 2013 01:30 (thirteen years ago)
The first one sounds like a modem connecting.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 21 June 2013 08:09 (thirteen years ago)
I was half expecting Curiosity to be a long drawn out fart app.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 21 June 2013 08:36 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/6PDl21s.gif
― 乒乓, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:42 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/gbkRPoO.jpg
― 乒乓, Sunday, 23 June 2013 13:13 (thirteen years ago)
http://youtu.be/xFDthoYQr4E
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:54 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xFDthoYQr4E
oh ffs. which one do i need to embed
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:55 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDthoYQr4E
― Z S, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:59 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/DQZYefK.gif
― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:22 (thirteen years ago)
that's awesome.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:28 (thirteen years ago)
hahaha. i love Christian's disappointment
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:45 (thirteen years ago)
He's very, "Oh man! Not again!"
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:46 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/OYPhXE5.png
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:31 (thirteen years ago)
That looks a bit like that 'erotic' card game pr0n game from earlier this year.
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:49 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/uX2IyU2.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 27 June 2013 18:28 (thirteen years ago)
lol
that would be me, except i'd be dead somehow
― Z S, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:51 (thirteen years ago)
Super Galdelic Hour (PS2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-v6ZJQic
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 27 June 2013 21:37 (thirteen years ago)
loooooooooooool http://imgur.com/a/C7qkS
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:17 (thirteen years ago)
sad but true:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/movie-game-review.php
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 29 June 2013 17:48 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/WOi3aDQ.png
― 乒乓, Monday, 1 July 2013 04:58 (thirteen years ago)
sad but true in 2002 maybe
― GM, Monday, 1 July 2013 13:35 (thirteen years ago)
big image, likely totally fake? but kind of cool if true--dude left 16 bots running in quake 3 for 4 years and they...stopped fighting each other
http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:20 (thirteen years ago)
Quaker 3
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:23 (thirteen years ago)
fun little thought exp regardless
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:23 (thirteen years ago)
ha that's really interesting
― goole, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:34 (thirteen years ago)
Looks totally fake, but clever
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:37 (thirteen years ago)
There's enough detail in there that it might be true, but come on, who leaves a server on for four years and forgets about it?
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:43 (thirteen years ago)
yeah I don't believe any of that for one second. it even reads like fiction.
― Clay, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:29 (thirteen years ago)
Its got a punchline and everything. Still a nice story tho.
― Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Monday, 1 July 2013 21:17 (thirteen years ago)
They do use genetic algorithms, though. You can read more here:
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/MSc/2001/Waveren_Jean-Paul_van/thesis.pdf
in sections 3 and 9. There's more on neural networks for bots in Quake 3 here:
http://www.ieee-cig.org/cig-2009/Proceedings/proceedings/papers/cig2009_041e.pdf
Maybe someone can email one of the above authors and get an expert weigh in as to the plausibility of the story (fishy as it sounds!).
― bamcquern, Monday, 1 July 2013 22:42 (thirteen years ago)
sounds like the bots just ran out of memory
― 乒乓, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:13 (thirteen years ago)
I thought about that, too, although the op describes the large files as logs rather than the AI routines themselves, and I don't know how pared down (or not) the genetic algorithms are or must be. It's not worth really intensely educating myself about Quake 3's bots' GA because the reasons behind the bots' behavior in the op, if not made up, is certainly going to be a banal one.
― bamcquern, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:55 (thirteen years ago)
If they used a genetic algorithm and the fitness function output was heavily weighted with number of deaths, this makes sense no?
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 01:27 (thirteen years ago)
the algos that made it were the ones that had 0 deaths?
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:16 (thirteen years ago)
Maybe the algos were set to maximize game-related lols come 2013
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:26 (thirteen years ago)
Algo: the Oscar-nominated story of how a group of American hostages were rescued by a forum poster peddling a bogus story of spontaneous AI self-awareness in a Quake environment. Three stars.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:58 (thirteen years ago)
I wouldn't completely rule out the bot behavior being real even if the interpretation of the behavior is bogus. One of the articles I linked to talks about the great care and attention the GAs need to make good AI, so if a server ran unattended for even a few months, I wouldn't be surprised if the AI broke, or acted strangely or unpredictably. It's also possible that the story is basically true, but the time-frame has been greatly exaggerated, or the description of the bots' behavior embellished.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 06:07 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxkdxEbFzU
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:06 (thirteen years ago)
"What in the name of fuck!"
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:11 (thirteen years ago)
totally want to hang with those guys.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:14 (thirteen years ago)
just having subtitles of those guys talking is in this uncanny funny zone for me
― goole, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:23 (thirteen years ago)
can't pin down exactly why that one is so LOLsy but it is. Love the idea of just infinitely clowning a hapless tank on a bicycle.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:25 (thirteen years ago)
so good
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:25 (thirteen years ago)
the bicycle hijinks def make that one. like of course ppl are going to ride that into battle if you put that in your game
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:21 (thirteen years ago)
callback to the quake story, less viscerally interesting but more realhttp://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 July 2013 04:28 (twelve years ago)
That's fantastic.
― JimD, Thursday, 4 July 2013 10:30 (twelve years ago)
haaa yeah that's fun
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 5 July 2013 19:25 (twelve years ago)
i don't know where else to post this but i 100%'d binding of isaac today
http://i40.tinypic.com/2nitgg4.png
― Mordy , Saturday, 6 July 2013 00:17 (twelve years ago)